NASA has launched a website called Planet Patrol, where members of the public can collaborate with astronomers to hunt for new worlds.
They’ll be sorting through images collected by NASA’s Transiting Exo-Planet Survey Satellite — or TESS.
Quite a lot has been going on:
Don't miss Mars and the nearly full moon huddling together in tonight's sky | Space
Friday night is date night for two bright celestial meetups that will light up the sky tonight (Oct. 2 - Oct. 3).
If skies are clear in your area during the overnight hours, you'll have an opportunity to see the nearly- full moon snuggling up with a shining Mars , followed some hours later by an even more brilliant Venus pairing off with one of the brightest stars in the sky.
On Friday night, Oct. 2, the moon, just one day past its " Harvest Full Moon " phase, will appear to glide closely above the planet Mars.
A Rogue Earth-Mass Planet Has Been Discovered Freely Floating in the Milky Way Without a Star -
If a solar system is a family, then some planets leave home early. Whether they want to or not. Once they’ve left the gravitational embrace of their family, they’re pretty much destined to drift through interstellar space forever, unbound to any star.
Astronomers like to call these drifters “rogue planets,” and they’re getting better at finding them. A team of astronomers have found one of these drifting rogues that’s about the same mass as Mars or Earth.
What happens when two planets crash together? This supercomputer has the answer
"It's all about doing calculations," he told Digital Trends. "There's no reason you couldn't do it by hand, it would just take forever. It's really exactly how video games work. If you've got a character — even a 2D one like Mario — and you need them to jump and fall back down under gravity, that means the program has an equation for gravity, and it basically does a very, very simple simulation to work out how quickly that character falls. It's really the same principle.
"We need a supercomputer because we require many millions of particles to resolve the details of what happens in these messy collisions, especially with low-density atmospheres," he said. "This means a daunting number of calculations to do very many times in order to see how the system evolves throughout the impact."
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Mysterious 'pi planet' discovered in deep space | Fox News
A newly discovered exoplanet the size of Earth has one very peculiar characteristic — it orbits its star every 3.14 Earth days.
The research, published in The Astronomical Journal , notes the "pi planet" known as K2-315b is relatively close to Earth at 186 light-years away. A light-year, which measures distance in space, equals 6 trillion miles.
“The planet moves like clockwork,” the study's lead author, MIT researcher Prajwal Niraula, said in a statement .
Volunteers wanted: NASA's Planet Patrol wants your help to find alien worlds | Space
The space agency just launched a citizen-science project called Planet Patrol, which asks volunteers around the world to sort through images collected by the Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS).
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"Automated methods of processing TESS data sometimes fail to catch imposters that look like exoplanets ," Planet Patrol project leader Veselin Kostov, a research scientist at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland, and the SETI Institute in Mountain View, California, said in a statement.
First study with exoplanet satellite data describes one of the most extreme planets in the
Using data from CHEOPS, scientists have recently carried out a detailed study of the exoplanet WASP-189b. The results have just been accepted for publication in the journal Astronomy & Astrophysics . Willy Benz, professor of astrophysics at the University of Bern and head of the CHEOPS consortium, said, "These observations demonstrate that CHEOPS fully meets the high expectations regarding its performance."
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WASP-189b, the target of the CHEOPS observations, is an exoplanet orbiting the star HD 133112, one of the hottest stars known to have a planetary system. "The WASP-189 system is 322 light years away and located in the constellation Libra (the weighing scales)," explains Monika Lendl, lead author of the study from the University of Geneva, and member of the National Center of Competence in Research PlanetS.
NO EARLY GENERATION OF PLANETS | SETI Institute
Tiny diamonds found in exotic stony meteorites called "ureilites" were recently proposed to have formed much like diamonds on Earth: from graphite deep inside a planetary body where pressures are high enough to change the crystal structure from graphite to diamond over long periods of time. To grow 100 micron diamonds, it was thought that pressures larger than 20 GPa (Giga Pascals) were needed.
Now, in a paper published in the journal PNAS (Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America), a group of researchers led by Fabrizio Nestola (University of Padova, Italy) and Cyrena Goodrich (Universities Space Research Association at the Lunar and Planetary Institute), report that a shock wave from a big but fairly common planetary collision in the early solar system can do the same.
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NASA is inviting volunteers to join the hunt for new exoplanets. https://t.co/CXOrRgqR6G VICE Fri Oct 02 14:30:06 +0000 2020
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